To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
GEORGE S. PATTONMany soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
More George S. Patton Quotes
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Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
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The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.
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War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
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War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
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A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.
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I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
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Do everything you ask of those you command.
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When in doubt, ATTACK!
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May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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